Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate


Almirante Juan de Borbón
Class overview
Builders: NAVANTIA-IZAR, Astillero Ferrol
Operators:  Spanish Navy
Subclasses: Fridtjof Nansen class frigate
Hobart class destroyer
Cost: F101/4 €453m (~US$600m) each F105 €834m (~US$1.1bn)
In commission: 5
Building: 0
Active: Álvaro de Bazán
Almirante Juan de Borbón
Blas de Lezo
Méndez Núñez
Cristóbal Colón
General characteristics
Type: Guided missile frigate
Displacement: 6,400 tons full load
Length: 146.7m
Beam: 18.6m
Draft: 4.75m
Propulsion: CODOG
2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines
2 × Caterpillar 3600 diesel engines
Speed: 28.5 knots
Range: 4,500 nm at 18 knots
Complement: 250 (48 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1D 3-D multifunction radar
Raytheon SPS-67(V)4 surface search radar
Raytheon DE1160 LF active and passive sonar
2 x ARIES navigation/surface radar
2 × Raytheon SPG-62 Mk99 radar illuminator
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
4 × FMC SRBOC Mk36 flare launchers
SLQ-25A Enhanced Nixie torpedo countermeasures
Indra SLQ-380 EW suite
Indra Mk 9500 interceptor
Armament: 1 × 5-inch/54 Mk45 Mod 2 gun
Provision for one CIWS FABA 20mm/120 Meroka system.
1 × 48 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems
32 × Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA
64 × RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile
8 × McDonnell Douglas RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile
4 × 324 mm Mk32 Mod 9 double Torpedo launchers with 12 Honeywell Mk46 mod 5 Torpedo
Aircraft carried: 1 × Sikorsky SH-60B LAMPS III Seahawk